Author: Tea Adventures
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Jin Jun Mei Golden Eyebrows Tea Tasting (Tea Joint)
Tea Joint’s Jin Jun Mei Golden Eyebrows has a malty flavour profile. There were also some sour berries in the early infusions, but these quickly faded.
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Doing Your Own Thing or Following the Rules
Following the rules while making tea is not always the best option. Rather use them as a starting point and do your thing to find your own way.
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2016 Fuding White Tea Tasting (ANMO)
ANMO’s 2016 Fuding White is a fruity and sweet mini teacake. Fruity notes in combination with a candy sweetness that go on long into the aftertaste.
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Bai Jian Tea Tasting (Tea Joint)
Tea Joint’s Bai Jian white tea is a good entry-level silver needle. It consists of big hairy buds and has a sweet and fruity flavour profile.
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2016 Menghai Parfum de Jujube Ripe Tea Tasting (Terre de Ciel)
Terre de Ciel’s 2016 Menghai Parfum de Jujube ripe is such a good shu puerh. It offers sweet flavours that are full of dried fruits.
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Taiwanese GABA Grape Oolong Tea Tasting (Tea Joint)
Tea Joint’s Taiwanese GABA Grape Oolong has flavours that like to play hide and seek. Roasted cherries and fresh appels take turns in showing themselves.
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Wuyi Yancha Tieluohan Tea Tasting (ANMO)
ANMO’s Wuyi Yancha Tieluohan is a creamy and sweet Zhengyan Cha. At some point, it was almost like eating strawberry ice cream.
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2013 Bingdao Gushu Tea Tasting (Nannuoshan)
The 2013 Bingdao Gushu sheng puerh from Nannuoshan is a subtle tea that offers a pleasant fruitiness. It’s the perfect tea to calm down after a long day.
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Tea in Times of Corona
The Corona crisis directly affects our tea habits. In this article, I briefly discuss how it alters our drinking habits and the process of buying tea.
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2009 Liubao Tea Tasting (Nannuoshan)
Nannuoshan’s 2009 Liubao is a tea that doesn’t want to let go. It’s mainly dry wood, but the texture is rich and full-bodied. You just can’t stop drinking.
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2011 Kunlu Shan Tea Tasting (Terre de Ciel)
Terre de Ciel’s 2011 Kunlu Shan has smokey and incense notes to it, but you can also feel some traces of a sweet fruitiness.
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Best Tea Youtube Channels
Youtube is a source of information when you know where to look. In this article, I listed several tea Youtube channels that teach you something about tea.
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Pine Sap Lapsang Tea Tasting (white2tea)
White2tea’s Pine Sap Lapsang is a lapsang souchong that was roasted over pinewood. It’s a basic tea that offers flavours of smoked charcoal.
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Kuradashi Gyokuro Uji Tea Tasting (The Japanese Tea Hub)
The Kuradashi Gyokuro Uji from The Japanese Tea Hub is like an Espresso shot full of umami. Besides that, you get some subtle grassy notes as well.
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Why I got into Puerh Tea
Over the last few months, my tea drinking habits have changed. Instead of green tea and oolong tea, I now prefer Puerh tea for various reasons.